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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA was not a big deal when I went to college in 1997.[/quote]

Agent Starling bragged about going there though.[/quote]

I went to high school in Massachusetts in the 1970s & the first thing that made me aware of UVA was that the [b]Kennedys sent two of their dimmer bulbs [b]to its law school[/b]. [/b]Decades ago I assumed that meant its law school was good, but now I think they probably attended because they could make some DC connections & sow a ton of wild oats without offending anyone of importance. [/quote]

Nevertheless, today UVA law is ranked no 4. UVA undergrad is ranked 24 in the nation for all schools and no. 4 best public university.[/quote]

You may be confused. Robert F. Kennedy (assassinated while Attorney General of the US) is UVA Law '51. Edward ("Ted", the lion of the Senate) was UVA Law 1959. I believe you are thinking of [b]John F Kennedy[/b], who attended NYU Law and could not pass the NY bar. On his third try he did, but in the interim has to resign from positions bcause he kept failing.[/quote]

John F. Kennedy, Jr., not JFK.  JFK did not attend law school.

Ted Kennedy was admitted to UVA law despite having an Honor Code violation, which should have been disqualifying (and likely would have been for anyone else).  He had someone else take a Spanish exam for him at Harvard.

Robert Kennedy was not assassinated while Attorney General.  He was no longer AG and was running for president.[/quote]

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